Shazam! DC’s next Big Hero Has Collectibles on the Way

Shazam! doesn’t hit theaters until April, but as you might expect, some of the first merchandise based on Zachary Levi as the DC superhero is already up for pre-order.

The first is a PVC diorama figure that features Shazam! in a dramatic hero pose, bolts of translucent lighting bursting from his chest.

The piece is designed by Caesar and sculpted by Rocco Tartamella, and measures approximately 9″ tall. It comes in a full-color window box and has a suggested retail price of $49.99.

Shazam! will also be available as a chunky lil’ Vinimate, one of Diamond Select’s blocky stylized vinyl figurines based on their Minimates line. Designed by Barry Bradfield, he measures 4″ tall and sells for the reasonable price of $9.99.

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12 Comic Book Supervillains Who Deserve Their Own Horror Movie

Something is happening to superhero movies. On average, they’re getting less… superheroic. Films like Venom, Suicide Squad, Split, Glass and The Joker are putting the supervillains front and center, and the upcoming Superman allegory Brightburn goes one step further, turning superhero iconography on its head and making a “super” “boy” into a horror movie villain.

These films raise an interesting question, which is what about the rest of the villains? DC and Marvel Comics are filled with interesting bad guys, and they’re not all secretly golden-hearted. Many of them are evil as hell. If they got their own movies they’d still be the villains, and most movie franchises that are centered around despicable monsters are in the horror genre.

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How Justice League Dark Spotlights DC’s Most Unlikely Hero

The most recent incarnation of the Justice League Dark boasts some pretty big names, but it’s real heart isn’t any of its A-listers like Wonder Woman or Zatanna or Swamp Thing. It’s a talking chimpanzee in a deerstalker cap who goes by the name Detective Chimp, and he’s the secret to making the DC’s thoroughly complicated magical lore accessible. He’s a hard-nosed sleuth with an eye for mysteries and a skill with deduction that rivals Batman, a bizarre everyman around to provide commentary and, inexplicably, logic, to even the most bizarre magical mishaps, and a charmingly put-upon moral compass for the JLD’s exploits.

So, what on earth does an anthropomorphic primate have to do with DC’s mystic heroes?

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Mortal Kombat 11’s Reveal Has Us Hungry For More

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Resident Evil 2 Remake: All The Story You Need To Know Before Playing

The exploits of Bravo Team are the subject of the 2002 prequel game, Resident Evil 0. Bravo headed out into the mountains by helicopter, only for a mechanical failure (the result of sabotage by Wesker) to force them to make an emergency landing. Trapped in the mountains, Bravo Team started its investigation anyway. Instead of heading to the Spencer mansion as Wesker had intended, however, the group discovered an abandoned military convoy, with documents inside suggesting the vehicle had been transporting Billy Coen, an accused murderer. With the soldiers escorting him now dead, Bravo started to suspect Coen might be the killer they were looking for.

While most of Bravo wound up at the Spencer mansion, rookie Bravo Team medic Rebecca Chambers, one of the player characters in Resident Evil 0, discovered a stopped train, the Ecliptic Express. Boarding it, she discovered that its passengers were all dead–and then started to come back to life as zombies, thanks to the T-Virus. Escaping the creatures, Rebecca discovered Coen hiding on the train. The pair decided to work together to survive whatever was happening.

Since the Spencer mansion facility was being destroyed, Wesker and Birkin had sent the train, filled with Umbrella researchers, to restart work at Marcus’s former facility, which hadn’t been in use since his death. But the Queen Leech, which was responsible for the other attacks and sabotage at Umbrella facilities in the area, attacked the train and killed everyone aboard. After the Ecliptic Express was stopped, Wesker and Birkin dispatched Umbrella soldiers to restart it, but they were attacked and killed by the Queen Leech too, sending the train careening toward the Umbrella facility. Rebecca and Billy managed to slow the train down, surviving the crash. The incident made it clear to Wesker and Birkin, finally, that Umbrella was being attacked–ostensibly by the dead James Marcus.

Rebecca and Billy eventually destroyed the Queen Leech and escaped, while Wesker and Birkin separately activated the facility’s self-destruct system and wiped out the T-Virus and the creatures there. Rebecca released Billy, whom she now believed was innocent, and maintained that he’d been killed. She went looking for the rest of Bravo Team; her search soon took her to the Spencer Mansion, where things got even worse.

Nintendo Switch’s First Dedicated Fitness Game Is A Great Gym Alternative

Fitness Boxing is the Nintendo Switch’s first dedicated fitness game, and apart from a few issues, it seems like it’s a nice option to consider for a living room workout. GameSpot’s Jess McDonell spent around 10 days playing the $50 USD Switch exclusive, and in a new video feature, she explains what the game is all about and why you should care about it.

Games like Just Dance, Arms, and 1-2 Switch have elements of physicality, but Fitness Boxing goes further with its gamification of getting your body moving, sweating, and burning calories. A rhythm game, Fitness Boxing challenges you to perform a number of punches–jabs, uppercuts, and hooks among them–and move your body in time with the signals on screen. There is a soundtrack of Top 40 songs of tunes like Timber by Kesha and Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5, but they’re all instrumental instead of the actual versions, in case that matters to you.

One of the best features of Fitness Boxing is its customisable daily workouts. You can select areas you want to work on, such as biceps, chest, core, legs, calves, or full body, based on your fitness goals and how long you want each session to last. There are a wide variety options, and it’s nice to be able to tailor a workout session based on your specific interests and fitness goals. The experience isn’t without its issues, however, as the game’s motion controls can be finicky, which can prove frustrating. But overall, Fitness Boxing is a solid option for those looking to work out and play a video game at the same time. Boxer-gaming is what we’ll call it.

Fitness Boxing is available now for Nintendo Switch.

2018: The Year That Shook Video Games

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